Sabrina Romanelli (PhD3) and Tara Shomali (PhD 4) were awarded the FRQS doctoral scholarship ("Bourses de doctorat en recherche - volet r茅gulier鈥�). Both are supplemented by a contribution from Parkinson Quebec in partnership with the FRQ.
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Published on: 16 Jul 2025
Danielle Simons (PhD2) has been awarded the 2025 Max Eivaskhani Memorial Fellowship from the听Centre de Recherche en Biologie Structurale听(CRBS). This fellowship was established in 2021 in remembrance of former CRBS student Max Eivaskhani and is awarded to the top ranked application among the submissions for the CRBS Scholarship competition.
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Published on: 16 Jul 2025
Congratulations to Simran Dhir/PhD2, who received听The Louise and Alan Edwards Foundation鈥檚听Edwards PhD. Studentships in Pain Research 2025.听罢丑颈蝉听Studentship听carries with it a stipend of $25,000 per annum for three years.
Congratulations to Thomas Deluc/PostDoc, who received听the Ronald Melzack Fellowship in Pain Research ($70,000 per year for three years).
Both these awards supports full-time research in chronic pain that will be conducted at the Alan Edwards Centre for Research on Pain.
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Published on: 10 Jul 2025
Congratulations to Sabrina Romanelli, who received a prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (205-2027 cycle). This competitive 2-yr $40,000 award was given to 11 exceptional doctoral trainees across Canada working on Parkinson鈥檚 disease. Sabrina鈥檚 project aims to elucidate the mechanism of PINK1 activation on damaged mitochondria via interactions with the translocation machinery. Her work will help us understand how Parkinson-associated genetic variants impair PINK1鈥檚 function.
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Published on: 17 Mar 2025
Adithi Sundarakrishnan from the Clarke lab won the Best Graduate Student Poster Presentation Award at a symposium held by the Center for Studies in Behavioral Neurobiology (CSBN) at Concordia University. Additionally, she secured the Best 3-Minute Thesis Presentation Award at the recent School of Biomedical Sciences (SMBS) Grad Talks event.
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Published on: 16 May 2024
Seline is awarded the听1st听Place Senior Poster Presentation Award听at the Child Health and Human Development Research Day 2024 of the Research Institute of the 91直播 Health Centre. Congratulations Seline!
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Published on: 16 May 2024
Zixuan Li received the 91直播 MedStar Award for her publication entitled 鈥�The Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers Affect H295R Adrenal Cell Phenotypes and Functions鈥�, in recognition of the excellent research carried out in the Faculty of Medicine at 91直播. The findings from this paper demonstrate that organophosphate esters have chemical-specific effects on cortisol and aldosterone production and thus the adrenal may be an important target for these endocrine-disrupting chemicals.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2024
Congratulations to Tara Shomali, who received the prestigious Graduate Student Award from Parkinson Canada (2024-2026 cycle). This is a competitive 2-yr $40,000 award given to only 7 outstanding doctoral trainees doing research on Parkinson鈥檚 disease across Canada. This will help Tara works towards developing compounds targeting PINK1, a kinase implicated in early-onset familial Parkinson鈥檚.
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Published on: 26 Apr 2024
The Admin. staff of Pharmacology & Therapeutics department participated at the FMHS Community Celebration Breakfast,听Wednesday, June 14, at the Percival Molson Stadium.
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Published on: 14 Jun 2023
The admin. office team escaped from on May 29, 2023.
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Published on: 7 Jun 2023
Lama won Best Poster or Oral Presentation award (Postdoctoral Fellow category) for her poster entitled "The effects of bisphenols A and its structural analogs on the expression of gene transcripts involved in the regulation of steroidogenesis in KGN human granulosa cells" at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. Kudos to Lama!
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Published on: 17 May 2023
Braeden won the Best 3-minute Flash Talk Award at the Pharmacology Research Day on May 11, 2023. His talk was entitled "Environmentally Relevant Mixtures of Organophosphate Esters Suppress THP-1 Macrophage phagocytosis". Congratulations Braeden!
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Published on: 17 May 2023
Congratulations to Irem Ulku, from Prof. Gerhard Multhaup鈥檚 lab, who received a Junior Faculty Award at the ADPD 2023, Advances in Science & Therapy. International Conference on Alzheimer鈥檚 and Parkinson鈥檚 Diseases and related neurological disorders. The Conference was held from March 28th听鈥� April 1st, in G枚theborg, Sweden. There were over 4000 attendees and Irem was one out of 20 recipients.
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Published on: 3 Apr 2023
We are proud to announce that they won Large Departmental Council of the Year at the Science Undergraduate Society Appreciation Night (SUSANs) that was held on Tuesday, March 28th听2023 . They were awarded this prize for bringing the department together, hosting events, and supporting their community, and they鈥檙e looking forward to an even bigger and better year in 2023-2024!
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Published on: 3 Apr 2023
Xiaotong (Vicky) Wang's paper (below) was selected by The Society of Toxicology Risk Assessment Specialty Section as one of the top 10 Best Papers Advancing the Science of Risk Assessment.
Wang X, Luu T, Beal MA, Barton-Maclaren TS, Robaire B, Hales BF. The Effects of Organophosphate Esters Used as Flame Retardants and Plasticizers on Granulosa, Leydig, and Spermatogonial Cells Analyzed Using High-Content Imaging. Toxicol Sci. 2022 Mar 28;186(2):269-287. doi: 10.1093/toxsci/kfac012. PMID: 35135005; PMCID: PMC8963303.
Vicky is a PhD trainee in Drs. Robaire and Hales labs.
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Published on: 23 Mar 2023
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